Validating Left Ventricular Filling Pressure Measurements in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure: CardioMEMS™ Pulmonary Arterial Diastolic Pressure versus Left Atrial Pressure Measurement by Transthoracic Echocardiography
Table 1
Baseline characteristics.
Age (mean ± SD)
74 ± 9
Gender (, %)
Male
10 (59%)
BMI (mean ± SD)
31.7 ± 6.3
Smoking (, %)
Never smoker
7 (41%)
Current smoker
1 (6%)
Former smoker
9 (53%)
CHF category
HFrEF
15 (75%)
HFpEF
5 (25%)
Hypertension (, %)
17 (100%)
Hyperlipidemia (, %)
17 (100%)
Diabetes mellitus (, %)
10 (59%)
Coronary artery disease (, %)
14 (82%)
Peripheral arterial disease (, %)
3 (18%)
Atrial fibrillation/other arrhythmias (, %)
6 (35%)
Chronic lung disease (, %)
9 (53%)
Chronic kidney disease (, %)
4 (23%)
Baseline medical therapy for congestive heart failure
